Don't forget to order your supplies for this year's International BookCrossing Day (April 21)! The last day to order them is March 25, because we'll need time to get them to you before the big day arrives. And this year's labels were designed by Azuki and they're great. So don't miss out, get your orders in while you can!

Did this box a while back. Basically any book that is located in one of the Far Eastern Countries (here:https://en.wikipedia.org/---/Far_East I'm basically counting everything on the list, except Russia) or author is from one of those countries. I tried to have a variety of books from different countries.

Rules (and some borrowed from GoryDetails):-- If you haven't participated in a bookbox before: the main difference between bookboxes and rings/rays is that the boxes are meant to move along quickly, without waiting for any books to be read. You take books from the box if you want to read them, replacing them with books you've already read (or have no interest in reading), and get the box moving again right away. If you don't already have some suitably-themed books on hand, plan on picking up a few in plenty of time to be able to register them and read them at your leisure before the box gets to you.

-- When you are contacted for your address by the participant ahead of you, please reply promptly - and if circumstances have changed for you such that you can't manage a bookbox at that time, whether due to lack of suitable books, a budget-crunch that means you can't afford postage, inability to get to a post office in a timely fashion, or any other factor, please ask to be skipped. (If the situation is temporary, please contact me to have your name moved farther down the list.)

-- When you receive the box, please post a reply in this thread to let everyone know it arrived safely, and contact the next in line to ask for their address so you'll have it handy when you're ready to mail the box.

-- Put at least one book in the box for each one you take out - or, if you like, take advantage of the "shrinkage" option and take out one or two books more than you put in - and list your selections and contributions in the bookbox journal's JEs. (You don't have to match genre for genre, but you should try to maintain some kind of variety.) Please don't add a huge amount of Manga/Manwha (or children's books). A few are fine, but don't overload it.

-- Journal the books that you take from the box, so the contributors know where they are.

-- Mail the box within, at the most, two weeks. The media mail rate (applicable to books-only packages) will usually be the lowest. Please use delivery confirmation, and post the DC# in a reply to this thread. [If you can only get to a post office once a month, or if there are other factors that would make you take longer to move the box along, please let me know, and I'll take that into account when setting up the mailing order.]

Hi I am not sure if this list is in shipping order, but if it is, can I be moved down a bit? I'm reading up some books to help start a stalled box, and some of the books i've planned for this box may go in there instead. So I don't have as many books ready at this moment as I've expected.

Amazing indeed to arrive within the week. I mailed it Tuesday (went Monday but at the counter found that there was a tear in the box I didn't notice, and as the post office won't tape it for me I had to bring it home to mend).

I think that's record setting as I remember sometimes it takes weeks. Well, I have the manga box to send you next, so we'll see how fast that one travels.

I think that's record setting as I remember sometimes it takes weeks. Well, I have the manga box to send you next, so we'll see how fast that one travels.

Psst! azuki, HI77 is next on the manga book box list not Hyphen8

That's what I thought - thanks for clearing that up. :)

I think I'd better pass: 20 pounds is about the heaviest box I'm willing to ask my mailing elves to deal with. Anything more than that and even getting it up the stairs into the house is a bit of an issue.

3 different boxes arrived at my door at virtually the same time. I got this one confused with the "wild things" book box, which is sitting on my floor. the far east box has not arrived yet. sorry for the mixup.

sort of a fascinating variety of books. Am trying to make my choices for certain. There's one that I read in the last round that I highly recommend: the book about the brother, sister and I, a YA novel about the Korean Civil war. It was a quick read, I think I may have read it in the days that the box was at my home before.

Mailed the far east box yesterday to H177. It should arrive on Thursday, give or take. I have the tracking number, but not in front of me....can pull it out if the box doesn't show up. Grabbed a bunch of the books, replaced mainly with books that I had taken out of the earlier iteration of the far east bookbox. Hope you find some fun stuff....